Inalienable? Why He Barely Knows the Meaning of the Word!

It’s getting to the point where I can’t even read a Presidential speech anymore lest the depression caused by the knowledge that this hidebound yutz will plague our airwaves for two more years descends upon me like a smothering black blanket.

So let me close by saying this. Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. To British and French, to Dutch and Spanish, to Mexican — (applause) — to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land. We didn’t always get along. But over the centuries, what eventually bound us together — what made us all Americans — was not a matter of blood, it wasn’t a matter of birth. It was faith and fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That’s what makes us unique. That’s what makes us strong. The ability to recognize our common humanity; to remember that in this country, equality and opportunity are not just words on a piece of paper, they’re not just words in the mouths of politicians — they are promises to be kept.

Okay, first, North America wasn’t home to any Mexicans “long before America was an ideal” because Mexico didn’t actually exist until 45 years after America had become an independent and sovereign nation. I know that the President has claimed to be a Constitutional scholar, not a history major, but I would think that his many years in prestigious universities such as Occidental College, Columbia University, Harvard, and the University of Chicago would have given him at least some knowledge about the history of the continent on which he lives. Maybe he was too busy dreaming of a long career as a community organizer to organize some knowledge about when the United States began.

What’s worse about this burst of blather from our Incessant Yammerer in Chief is that he truly believes our inalienable rights aren’t all that inalienable. For those of us who paid attention in school, “inalienable” means that our rights can not be taken from us nor assigned to us. The President does not believe in such tyrant-frustrating talk, though. To him, our rights aren’t ours, bestowed on us by an authority higher than he (notice how conspicuously he leaves said Higher Authority out of his quote), but “promises” to be delivered by the Benificent Government Fairy for good behavior or taken away at the whim of any sub-Fairy who decided that maybe we have just a bit too much free speech. Inalienable rights are incompatible with progressive utopia of and so long as they stand, they frustrate the President’s dream of a perfect society with him and his elite cadre of super-smart central planners at the helm of your life. So rights which the law of our land say belong to you are now “promises” that only he and his can dispense to you, assuming you have worked hard enough to earn them, that is.

That, folks, is not America. It is the very opposite of America and, come November, we can start getting rid of the would-be totalitarians who stand with our President and his twisted view of what this country should be.

Other Posts of Interest:

• History, Mr. President. You’re Doing It Wrong!
• Pressing on a Campaign Promise
• Let’s Try to Remember that Only the US Has a First Amendment

Tags: Free Speech (?), President Barack Obama

Category: Free Speech (?), Our New Democratic Overlords, The Rise of the Nanny State